A “Light Day” Is Usually A Trap

I had a light day at work, so I decided to set up the cubicles for four interns who were starting the next week. Issued ’em equipment, hauled it over, set it up, the whole nine yards.

Monday rolled around and the ticket was suddenly resurrected; Human Resources stopped by and the cubicles were empty! What was she supposed to do with her four interns?!

I swore to God, up and down, that I’d set them up. And thankfully, my boss believed me.

It turned out that on Monday, in the brief period between my setting up the cubes and marking the ticket complete. (“Hey, mind having a look at my printer?”), telecom had stopped by to reprogram the desk phones. He could see that the ticket was still open, figured the equipment was old (it was — they were interns, so they didn’t get nice stuff), and hauled it back to storage himself to help us out.

The boss made the telecom people haul it all back out, and then I got to play swapsies in inventory management because, of course, they couldn’t be bothered to put the right equipment back on the right desks.

HR still tried to blame us to the VP at our next quarterly meeting.